 | This article may be too technical for most readers to understand. (February 2016) |
Carbohydrate synthesis is a sub-field of organic chemistry concerned with generating complex carbohydrate structures from simple units (monosaccharides). The generation of carbohydrate structures usually involves linking monosaccharides or oligosaccharides through glycosidic bonds, a process called glycosylation. Therefore, it is important to construct glycosidic linkages that have optimum molecular geometry (stereoselectivity) and the stable bond (regioselectivity) at the reaction site (anomeric centre).[1]
- ^ Tiwari, Vinod Kumar (October 26, 2023). Synthetic Strategies in Carbohydrate Chemistry (1st ed.). Elsevier. pp. 3–7. ISBN 9780323986496.